A few of the organizers come out to give short speeches. Standing behind a makeshift dais draped in the Turkish flag and the visage of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the father of the Turkish Republic, they rail against the plans of mining companies to use toxic cyanide in the leaching of gold. Some of the arguments are environmental, some economic, others purely emotional. “They have money, they have the laws, they have all that,” one of the speakers shouts into the microphone, “but we have hearts and those they can't take away from us.” The crowd roars its approval.
http://pulitzercenter.org/turkey-zeytinli-gold-mining-protest-kaz-mountains
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